We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
I want to be an activist professor.
Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can be made visible through the medium of collective voices and social movements energized by the need for a politics and way of life counter to authoritarian capitalism.
You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.
Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That's me, by the way: Hell, I think we should be spending $50 billion a year to make college education free).
Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.
Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.
We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.